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The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future emerges as part of a growing body of work which is striving to address desperation with imagination, to find new ways to be.

Hokum and a lamentably OTT ending ruin what had been a pleasingly ponderous piece of pap.

Its structure aims for Shakespeare, but is little more than shaky, its dialogue is dire and there is enough ham and wood in the performances to make a perfectly good barbecue.

Taymor has succeeded in recreating an extraordinary time for an exceptional woman. She does so with love and imagination.

The film has a huge heart.

A handful of the passengers may eventually get out of the ship alive, but in this massive overhaul of The Poseidon Adventure (1972), nothing, it seems, can save them from Mark Protosevich's sinking script.

Brash, disorientating, aggressive, shaken, in your face, the handheld DVCAM brilliantly conveys the intensity of the couple's rocked world.

It''s in the ordinariness of it that LaBute finds the real horror.

The plot is less vital than the music, dance and cinematography.